What to look for with health IT policy in the months ahead

"Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case," says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.

t's already been a busy and contentious couple weeks in Washington, with battles across a wide array of government and policy fronts in the early going of the second Trump Administration. Soon, we'll be learning a lot more about how healthcare and health IT policy will be taking shape going forward.

Robert F. Kennedy, Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has not been confirmed yet, but he inched one step closer with a party-line Finance Committee vote on Feb. 4.

If RFK Jr. clears a final vote in the Senate, many questions about the future direction of health IT policy – among many others – may be answered soon.

We connected recently with Leigh Burchell, VP of policy & public affairs for Altera Digital Health, and incoming chair of the EHR Association, to hear what she expects to see in the weeks and months ahead for health IT at the federal level, and learn what she's hearing from some of her conversations in D.C.

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